Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”
“The rule of law is not an exception to rule by fear; it is the fulfillment of rule by fear.”
Fear: The History of a Political Idea
“There is usually enough of everything on the table except cream.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p31.
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Source: Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Context: Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
History jeers at the attempts of physiologists to bind great original laws by the forms which flow from them. They make a rule; they say from observation what can and cannot be. In vain! Nature provides exceptions to every rule. She sends women to battle, and sets Hercules spinning; she enables women to bear immense burdens, cold, and frost; she enables the man, who feels maternal love, to nourish his infant like a mother.
“You can't make rules for the exceptional.”
Other
“Rules are made to be broken and exceptions can be made.”
Why Libertarian Gary Johnson must be included in debates (August 11, 2016)
Die Welt (1909); also in A Treasury of Jewish Quotations (1985) by Joseph L. Baron.
